Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball (Dowd)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/opinion/sunday/dowd-cruel-conservatives-throw-a-masquerade-ball.html

September 1, 2012
Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball
By MAUREEN DOWD

... They did that for us. Because they care. With exquisite timing, they started caring last Tuesday at 7 p.m., when suddenly the party was chockablock with tender souls in rainbow colors, with strong-minded women and softhearted men, with sentimental rags-to-riches immigrant sagas...

It was truly thrilling to watch the blindingly white older male delegates greet their young, blue-eyed future: Paul Ryan, the 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman who turns out to be more talented than anyone had anticipated — a prodigy of prestidigitation.

In his speech Wednesday night, the altar boy altered reality, conjuring up a world so compassionate, so full of love-thy-neighbor kindness and small-town goodness, that you had to pinch yourself to remember it was a shimmering mirage, a beckoning pool of big, juicy lies. (The fitness freak may have also fibbed about running a sub-three-hour marathon in 1991; Runner’s World reports that his time was 4 hours and 1 minute.)

As the writer Dermot McEvoy notes, Ryan has “the so sincere, so phony air of a gloomy Irish undertaker standing outside the funeral parlor where you’ve come to plant your mother, shaking his head consolingly and giving you that firm two-handed Irish handshake.” Except with Ryan, it’s the safety net in the coffin. ...

[freshwest]

1. Haven't heard from Dowd for a while. Thanks, that was good.

[Hamlette]

6. she's been good lately.

I gave up on her years ago. I found her vapid and her slurs on Obama were unfair. But I've read a couple of her columns in the last few weeks which were excellent.

[Webster Green]

2. Good article.

"Ryan’s lies and Romney’s shape-
shifting are so easy to refute that they must have decided a Hail Mary pass of artifice was better than their authentic ruthless worldview."

[Cha]

3. Good in most parts...like this nugget..

"It was remarkable to watch Mitt Romney ignore the empty seats and airless mood and reach deep inside himself to give a speech in which he appeared genuine. It was also remarkable to see that even when he looks genuine, he still seems fake. And despite the soft quiver in his voice, and Ann’s nonstop transfusions of emotion and wrenching testimonials from Mormons forced to publicly relive family tragedies simply to give Mitt a personality, the terribly erect candidate still seemed as remote as Jupiter."

Remote as Pluto is more like it.

She said about President Obama.."Given the president’s lackluster performance and the listless economy, Romney should be killing it"...yeah, right.

Not really "lackluster", MD. That really doesn't cut it on why romney should be winning.. Maybe all the LIES repeated ad nauseum as though to be true should be a reason why romney is ahead. It's certainly why that vapid f***** is so close..that and the Koch $$$$.

[unc70]

4. Remote as Remulak

[Raine]

5. THANKS for posting this! nt